Model T Ford: what made it so special? – video

Henry Ford created 'the car which made us ordinary folk want to drive', says
David Rooney, curator of transport at London's Science Museum, in conversation with
Dr Eleanor Crabb of the Open University. The Model T Ford was a technological marvel. It was beautiful but cheap; light but robust enough to survive the rough roads of the time. Introduced in 1908, by the time it was withdrawn in 1927 15m had been sold. One of the keys to its success was the production-line manufacturing that Ford pioneered – another excellent reason to name the Model T a
20th century icon